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bale. If you should have several bales of cotton to gin 
and wish to save the seed for planting purposes, it is best 
to have it ginned late in the season when the rush is over 
and the ginner finds time to rid all the machinery of 
undesirable seed. A better plan is to separate the seed 
from the lint by hand, if the acreage to be planted next 
year is small. 
Marketing Cotton.— It is not profitable to market 
cotton in the seed because the buyers are unable to judge 
what class of cotton it will make after ginning. As a 
result, the price paid is about the same for all grades 
because the buyers are not running a risk and protect 
themselves. The farmer who raises a good grade of 
cotton loses money by selling it in the seed. 
The bulk of the cotton crop is sold after it is ginned. 
This enables the farmer who raises the better grades of 
lint to sell his product at a fair price. He also may 
study market quotations and grades of cotton in the 
daily papers, and grade his cotton in order to protect 
himself. 
In recent years the cotton growers of the South are 
marketing their crop cooperatively. This insures a good 
market, careful grading, and uniform prices to the grower. 
The principal grades of cotton are: Middling Fair, 
Strict Good Middling, Good Middling, Strict Middling^ 
Middling, Low Middling, Strict Low Middling, Good 
Ordinary, and Ordinary. 
Marketing Cotton Seed.— The cotton seed in most 
localities is sold to the oil mills. The mills separate 
the seed into hulls, cottonseed meal, cottonseed oil, linters, 
trash, and dirt. 
QUESTIONS 
L State five uses of cotton. Name the two types of cotton. 
Also tell how they differ. 
